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Resurrection Suddenly Remembers and Resolves Last Season’s Cliffhanger

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been waiting for this show to resolve the question of Marty’s relationship to the Thompsons pretty much all season. We ended season one on the revelation of that, and we haven’t heard anything about that until now. Just in time to dispose of most of the Thompsons…

This Beautiful Stool Can Be Built From Four Parts in Seconds

This beautiful flat pack stool has just four parts and can be put together in seconds—by simply screwing a plumbing value right through its centre. The Yodessa stool by Tizumuka has a simple stool top, two sets of legs, and the required screw-in valve. Taken apart, it can be packed into a 680 x 400…

Cruise Ship Wi-Fi Just Got Ten Times Faster

If you’ve ever spent weeks at sea on a cruise, you’ll know that using the Internet is a bit like stepping back in time by a decade or more. But that’s all changing. Cruise ship operator Carnival has developed a new WiFi@Sea network for passengers aboard its vessels, and they claim that it supplies those…

BlackBerry’s newly Snapchattified BBM messenger is now available, so you can mad with some, err, corporate sexting?

CBS has made a commitment to produce a pilot for a Limitless series, based on the2011 moviestarring Bradley Cooper. The show was in development last year, but now you can officially get ready for Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman’s take on a drug that enhances the brain with some intense side affects. [Deadline]

New Details Reveal Just How Totally Bananas Superman Lives Could’ve Been

For whatever reason, the failed Tim Burton and Nicholas Cage Superman Lives is making news again. Each little detail we get is slightly weirder than the ones we started with. And given that one of the ones we started with was a giant mechanical spider, that’s saying something. Making the rounds last week was an…

Watch the Biggest Sunspot in 24 Years Traverse the Sun

You’re looking at the largest sunspot since 1990 as it crossed the surface of the Sun. Captured between October 17th and 29th, the spot was big enough to see without a telescope. Interestingly, despite its size and production of lots of flares, it “did not produce any significant coronal mass ejections,” according to Alex Young…

Rumor: Apple Watch Going on Sale in Spring 2015

While many are eager for Apple to start selling its new watch as soon as possible, a leaked internal message suggests that we might have to wait until spring of next year before we can put one on our wrists. According to Apple employees, reports 9to5mac, Apple Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores…

Marching Band Forms Real and Fictional Space Ships for Space-Themed Show

The Ohio State University Marching Band is at it again. While you might deduct points for relying too heavily on the music from the Abrams’ Star Trek films, they more than make up for it in their formations and their skill. Plus, they give special tribute to NASA, which is just awesome. [via Tastefully Offensive]

Turbulence Prevents Star Formation In Galaxy Clusters

Galaxy clusters are large clouds of hot gas, seemingly-ideal places to observe gas cooling and condensing into stars. Yet, we don’t see that happening. Here’s a look at how black holes and turbulence are conspiring to keep galaxy clusters underpopulated with hot new stars. Top image: Perseus (left) and Virgo (right) glow extremely brightly in…

Surprise! Two More Marvel Characters Are In Age of Ultron

In case everything else we’ve seen and heard about Avengers: Age of Ultron didn’t move you, maybe this will. See who the two are inside, including spoilery speculation about what they’re doing Speaking with The Telegraph, Elba said: “Ironically, yesterday I had to…” Elba chuckles. He’s not meant to talk about this, but he clearly…

Sci-Fi Action Movie Double Feature with Cyborg and Total Recall

It’s a wonderful Sunday evening for some science fiction, don’t you think? Luckily, Netflix has just reintroduced into the streaming wild two titles worthy of your attention: Cyborgand Total Recall. I am an absolute sucker for action films, but I only really like them if it’s completely unforgiving, 24/7, non-stop action. The best action movies…

La Luz: It’s Alive

Yesterday was the first day of fall where I audibly said the words “damn, it’s cold.” Now, I actually love colder months as opposed to the sweat-inducing alternative, but that doesn’t mean I don’t get nostalgic when I know I’ll soon be sentenced to the dreary, chapped-lipped months of northeastern winters. In these times of…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

In contrast to last week’s gush of new apps from the Microsoft Garage project, things have slowed back to normal. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some awesome apps to mention. Let’s also not forget that we achieved a major smartphone milestone this week: You can now order Taco Bell with just an app.…

This Is The Public Pee Stain Typeface You’ve Been Waiting For

If you’ve been looking for that radical new typeface that will totally bring together than lackluster PowerPoint presentation, urine the wrong place. New York artist Aravindan Thirunavukarasu has created a typeface modeled after public pee graffiti. The “Art of Peeing” was modeled after the artist’s own pee calligraphy on walls around the city. CityLab was…

What Do You Miss Most About the Early Days of the Internet?

Nostalgia is making a come back, specifically warm and fuzzy feelings about the internet’s early years. Influences of Web 1.0 can be seen in new apps from Facebook and Ello’s stripped-down design and call for an ad-free social network. But what do you miss from those early years of web surfing? Since the internet became…

How the Most Prolific Counterfeiter in America Made His Millions

Welcome to another installment of Reading List where we take a look at some of the the great tech and science reads from around the web. This week we enter the weird world of sweeping, gaze through the lens of ghost cams still haunting the internet, look at why technological limits made Abbey Road Studios…

Back of the Box – 11/02/2014

The final countdown begins – It’s November, and that means there’s only one month left for Toybox’s time on the recruit program. Let’s look back at the last week in Pop Culture before looking ahead to the rest of the month. First off, I’d like to apologise for the barren nature of the page today…

11 of the Best Sci-Fi Robots Ever

The thing that makes art great—whether film, books, or TV shows—is that it aims to teach us about ourselves and the human condition. But sometimes in order to do that, you need a teacher who is completely inhuman. That’s where robots come in. Robots have origins rooted in ancient mythology and have often been used…

Baseball, Lava, Street Harassment: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

A video on street harassment sparks an online debate. Fiery lava is slowly encroaching upon a town in Hawaii. And winning the World Series is always a great excuse to burn down a neighborhood. It’s a hot list in this week’s What’s Ruining Our Cities. A World Series championship ruined San Francisco Because nothing says…